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Crash of a Supermarine Stranraer off Falmouth: 2 killed

Date & Time: Nov 3, 1939
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
K7294
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
Yes
Schedule:
Falmouth - Falmouth
Region:
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The crew departed Falmouth on a local training exercice. While taking off in gale, the float plane hit swell, bounced, stalled and crashed. Two crew members were killed and three others were injured.
Crew:
Sgt Harrold, pilot,
Cpl J. W. Jay,
LAC George Peterson,
LAC George William Bowman, gunner, †
AC1 Stephen Colin Colbridge. †

Crash of a Supermarine Stranrear into the North Sea: 6 killed

Date & Time: Aug 19, 1939
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
K7297
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Felixstowe - Felixstowe
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
6
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
6
Circumstances:
The float plane departed Felixstowe on a maritime patrol flight over the North Sea. While flying in poor weather conditions, the airplane crashed into the sea. SAR operations did not find any trace of the aircraft nor the six crew members.
Crew:
F/O Arthur Frederick Barber,
F/O Frederick Ernest Royston King,
LAC Donald Fulcher,
AC1 David George Poeten Ash,
AC1 Walter Joseph Jeckells,
AC2 Leslie Samuel Freshwater.

Crash of a Supermarine Stranraer off Ushant: 6 killed

Date & Time: Mar 28, 1938 at 0630 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
K7288
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Pembroke Dock - Pembroke Dock
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
1
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
6
Circumstances:
The float plane departed Pembroke Dock on an exercice off Britain, carrying five crew members and one journalist who was covering the manoeuvres of the squadron. In the early morning, while flying in poor visibility due to mist, the aircraft descended too low, impacted the water surface, exploded and sank, less than a mile from the British cargo named 'Consett'. Quickly on site, approximately 20 NM southwest of Ushant (Ouessant Island), the crew of the cargo found few debris and the dead body of the passenger.
Crew:
F/Lt Reginald Henry Hobbs,
P/O John Philip Owens,
Cpl James Henry Audley,
AC1 Benjamin David Carysfort Lewis,
LAC Edward Weston Neale.
Passenger:
Arnold Edward Barlow.